Ahmedabad, 31st July (IANS): Gujarat Dalit leaders on Sunday asked the government to give them firearms in view of atrocities by Hindu activists as thousands of Dalits pledged not to lift carcasses from the streets.

Srinagar, 30th July (IANS): A senior Jammu and Kashmir cabinet minister narrowly escaped on Saturday when his cavalcade was attacked with stones as more violence erupted in the valley, coinciding with the globally banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit throwing its weight behind secessionist leaders and asking people to follow their shutdown programme in "letter and spirit".

Ahmedabad, 30th July (IANS): Prominent Muslim body Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind has declared support for a massive public rally being organized in Ahmedabad on Sunday by around 30 different Dalit groups of Gujarat to protest against atrocities on the community, especially the July 11 flogging of four youth by cow vigilantes.